Canterbury Crown Court Sentencing Results

Explore 583 verdicts at Canterbury Crown Court (Canterbury, Canterbury). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

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Matthew Lewis

Sexual assault *

Sentence

34 months’ imprisonment

At 9.30pm on Thursday 3 June 2021, the victim and her friend boarded a train at Margate station when they were approached by Lewis. He began to speak to them and persistently made inappropriate comments towards both girls, asking to take them for a drink and suggesting they run away with him. He continued despite them insisting that they were only 16 years old. Lewis proceeded to sit down next to the victim and sexually assault her. Noticing them looking uncomfortable, a man who was sat nearby challenged Lewis’ behaviour and a group of passengers invited the girls to sit with them further down the carriage. The girls moved away and got off the train at Rainham when they noticed Lewis had also alighted there. They pointed him out to two members of rail staff who reported the offence to BTP. Officers immediately attended and arrested Lewis at the scene. Appearing drunk, the officers evidenced a breach of his CBO which restricted him from travelling on the network while intoxicated.

Pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and one count of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), handed to him for previous offences on the railway. Ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.

1 Jan 0001

Matthew Lockwood

Sexual activity with a child *

Sentence

13 years' imprisonment

Matthew Lockwood, a 47-year-old Chatham sex offender, used social media apps including Snapchat and Grindr to target and manipulate teenage boys as young as 13 by offering money. He groomed and abused at least four children during a campaign of abuse between 2016 and 2023. He was arrested in February 2023. He also admitted offences relating to the possession and distribution of thousands of illegal images of children, many in the most serious category and which included videos of some of the victims he had contact with.

Pleaded guilty to 22 counts including sexual activity with a child, paying for sexual services of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, and sexual communications with a child. Added to the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and handed a 15 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Terry

Encouraging or assisting the commission of a child sex offence *

Sentence

9 years imprisonment

Mark Terry, previously of Maidstone Road, Ashford, Kent, used an online payment website to send women in the Philippines cash in exchange for videos of them sexually abusing girls, which he directed. He frequently paid between £15 and £25 for videos lasting between two and three minutes, sent live via a messaging app. Police searched his house in February 2018 and seized his computer, on which a forensic examination located around 7,000 indecent images of children.

Admitted 15 counts of encouraging or assisting the commission of a child sex offence and four counts of possessing indecent images of children. Subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for life.

1 Jan 0001

Mark Tucker

Attempting to import class A drugs *

Sentence

16 years imprisonment

Mark Tucker, 54, from Blackburn, was the passenger on an empty coach driven by Christopher Bullows. The coach was stopped at Dover Docks in September 2020. Border Force uncovered 243 kilos of cocaine hidden in a specially constructed wastewater tank. The drugs would have been worth around £19.4 million on UK streets. Tucker claimed he was a mechanic checking on air conditioning repairs, but it had been fixed in the UK months earlier.

Convicted by a jury following a five-day trial.

1 Jan 0001

Martin Harrison

Attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming *

Sentence

3 years imprisonment and a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order

Martin Harrison, 48, of Walsall, used an instant messaging app in October 2019 to send explicit messages to who he believed was a 12-year-old girl, actually an undercover officer from ERSOU. Despite knowing her age, he encouraged her to meet for sex and arranged to meet in Dover town centre on 20 October 2019 before travelling to France. He was arrested by Kent Police officers.

Pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child, arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, and attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

1 Jan 0001

Martin Kamesa

Being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin *

Sentence

3 years 9 months imprisonment

Martin Kamesa, a 24-year-old county line dealer from Gipsy Lane, Birmingham, brought heroin and crack cocaine from the West Midlands to Thanet via the 'CJ' county line from March 2022, using a local woman to help distribute the drugs to users in Thanet. He was identified as the runner, arrested in Birmingham in August 2022, and brought to Kent for questioning following an investigation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team.

Admitted being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and heroin.

1 Jan 0001

Matthew Bevan

Threats to kill, assault by beating, and stalking *

Sentence

2 years and 10 months imprisonment

On 22 March 2018, Matthew Bevan caused a disturbance outside a woman’s home on Joseph’s Way, Kent, shouting racist abuse at a man he believed to be inside. Police arrested him and subsequent investigation revealed that in April 2017 he threatened the same woman with a knife after a heated argument, and in October 2017 he assaulted her inside a property. He admitted the charges at Canterbury Crown Court on 23 July 2018.

Pleaded guilty to threats to kill, assault by beating, and stalking. The victim was praised for her courage in coming forward.

1 Jan 0001

Matthew Case

Controlling or coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm *

Sentence

two years and two months imprisonment

Matthew Case, formerly of Samuel Peto Way, Ashford, engaged in controlling and coercive behaviour towards a woman during their relationship. Kent Police were called to his home in 2021 following reports of shouting. The victim disclosed that Case refused to let her leave the house to meet family and friends, repeatedly accused her of being unfaithful, took her mobile phones to prevent her alerting others, damaged phones on other occasions, and assaulted her on a number of occasions. He was arrested on 23 March 2021 after 'boxing in' the victim's car at a location in Ashford.

Admitted controlling or coercive behaviour and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Indefinite restraining order imposed.

1 Jan 0001

Matthew Sales

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

8 years imprisonment

Matthew Sales, along with Thomas Pearson and Jed Coates, attacked the victim with a kitchen knife, a chain and a wooden bat in Cheriton Road, Folkestone, at around 11.50am on 25 August 2020. Sales stabbed the victim in the leg with a kitchen knife. Two days earlier, on 23 August 2020, Sales had punched the victim and stabbed him with a screwdriver. The victim was taken to hospital with stab wounds requiring long-term treatment. The attack was witnessed by members of the public, including a young girl.

Admitted wounding with intent, possession of an offensive weapon, and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm in relation to an earlier assault on the same victim on 23 August 2020. Of no fixed address.

1 Jan 0001

Miodrag Ivankovic

Smuggling cocaine *

Sentence

11 years imprisonment

Miodrag Ivankovic, 45, from Banja Luka in north Bosnia, was stopped by Border Force officers on 6 September at the freight controls in Dover after arriving from Calais. Officers searched his truck and found 94kg of cocaine with a street value of £7.5m hidden in a suspicious pallet of boxes.

Admitted trying to smuggle the Class A drugs. DNA found on the boxes containing the drugs.

1 Jan 0001

Miroslav Jano

Burglary *

Sentence

three years' imprisonment

Miroslav Jano targeted sheds and homes in Dover, stealing possessions including war medals. He was arrested on 4 April 2022 after police found him asleep in a communal area near a break-in at a flat in Durham Close, surrounded by stolen items. Forensic evidence linked him to a bag left at a burglary in Victoria Park containing stolen war medals from the Durham Close area. CCTV connected him to a burglary in Flying Horse Lane, leading to a second arrest on 9 May 2022.

Pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary and two of theft. A further three offences were ordered by the court to lie on file.

1 Jan 0001

Moyazzam Hossain

Stalking *

Sentence

four years and nine months imprisonment

Moyazzam Hossain stalked a woman who had moved to multiple women's shelters to escape his behaviour, including one in Dover. Kent Police were contacted in January 2022 after he was seen looking for her at the Dover shelter. He had previously approached her in the street and his vehicle was seen in Thanet. He was arrested in Dover on the same day.

Admitted stalking. Indefinite restraining order imposed.

1 Jan 0001

Muhamed Alievski

participating in the activities of a people smuggling organised crime group *

Sentence

three years in prison

National Crime Agency officers arrested 28-year-old Macedonian national Muhamed Alievski in Ashford, Kent, as part of an intelligence-led operation on 5 August this year. In the back of his lorry they found a 22-year-old Albanian man who was wanted for breaching a court order after being convicted of drug offences.

Admitted a charge of participating in the activities of a people smuggling organised crime group.

1 Jan 0001

Naomi Roberts

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

3 years and 8 months imprisonment

Naomi Roberts, George Roberts and Frederick Lamb assaulted an 18-year-old victim in the Sturry Road area of Canterbury near Brymore Road on 7 February 2019 following a dispute. Naomi Roberts grabbed the victim by the hair, took a knife from George Roberts and stabbed her in the calf. The victim also suffered a wound to her hand while defending herself.

20 years old, convicted of wounding with intent after trial.

1 Jan 0001

Melissa Goldstone

Robbery *

Sentence

4 years 9 months imprisonment

Stuart Girt and Melissa Goldstone entered a shop in Cheriton High Street at 6.30am on Friday 4 September 2020, both wearing masks. Girt, holding a seven-inch bread knife, went behind the counter and ordered a worker to open the till. Goldstone, holding a shorter vegetable knife, pointed the weapon at another worker. The pair stole more than £300 in cash and packets of cigarettes before leaving.

Pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of a knife. Aged 37, of no fixed address.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Bedford

Conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin *

Sentence

eight and a half years imprisonment

Michael Bedford ran the 'B' line drug dealing network which sold heroin and crack cocaine in Dover, making around sixty deals a day. The network supplied nearly five kilograms of heroin and crack cocaine, worth around £300,000, to drug users in Dover between June 2019 and February 2020. He was in charge of two stockists and call handlers.

Admitted conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin. The 30-year-old, formerly from Dover, is the twelfth person connected to the 'B' Line to be jailed, with the total sentences given to the group now exceeding 50 years.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Bumstead

Attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, arson, and assaulting emergency workers *

Sentence

six and a half years imprisonment with an extended two years on licence

On 15 June 2020, during an argument with an ex-partner in a car park in the Hillbrow Lane area of Ashford, Michael Bumstead shouted at a man in a nearby van, took out a long bread knife and tried to stab him through an open window. The victim avoided the knife; Bumstead kicked the van and fled. On 8 December 2020, Bumstead and two other men filled a jerry can with fuel at a petrol station near Charing and less than an hour later threw lighted bottles of fuel at a property linked to an ex-partner. During his arrest at Charing train station by two Kent Police PCs, Bumstead knocked one officer to the ground and threatened to throw the other onto the train tracks.

Admitted attempting to cause grievous bodily harm, arson and two counts of assaulting an emergency worker at Canterbury Crown Court on 25 May 2021. Extended sentence imposed.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Mcdonagh

Burglary *

Sentence

2 years and 8 months imprisonment

On 19 October 2019, between 11am and 12:30pm, McDonagh broke into a home on Radnor Park Road, Folkestone, while the occupant was out. He forced open the back door and ransacked several rooms, stealing a tablet, a watch, and a mobile phone. He attempted to force locked bedroom doors using tools from the utility room, including a garden hose spray gun, which he left wedged in a door. Forensic examination recovered his DNA from the spray gun. Arrested on 7 November, he initially claimed the DNA match was a mistake but later admitted the offence.

Pleaded guilty to one count of burglary. DNA evidence from a hose spray gun used during the break-in linked him to the crime.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Rowe

Causing Grievous Bodily Harm and Supply of Class A Drugs *

Sentence

four and a half years imprisonment

Michael Rowe, 26, from Margate, and Aston Cocks attacked two victims in King Street, Ramsgate on 12 January 2020. Rowe ran at a woman and punched her, knocking her into a wall, causing serious injuries. Separately, on 13 October 2021, police found a mobile phone at his home with texts offering heroin and crack cocaine.

Admitted causing grievous bodily harm and being concerned in the supply of class A drugs. Drug charges from separate investigation into 'Jango' county line.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Sloan

Smuggling class A drugs *

Sentence

six years and four months in prison

Michael Sloan attempted to smuggle almost 20 kilos of heroin (44-59% pure, street value £1.98 million) into the UK in a concealment built into the storage compartment of his campervan at Dover Eastern Docks two days before Christmas 2019. He was travelling with his partner and three children aged between one and six, claiming a trip to Cologne Christmas Market.

Pleaded guilty to smuggling class A drugs. Travelled with partner and three children as cover. Concealment built into campervan post-purchase.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Tovell

Perverting the course of justice *

Sentence

15 months imprisonment

Michael Tovell fabricated a violent assault on 2 February 2018, claiming he was attacked by four men with baseball bats and wooden planks while searching for a missing person in St Lawrence Graveyard, Ramsgate. He triggered his personal emergency alarm and shouted warnings over the radio, prompting two colleagues to respond within seconds. Paramedics treated him for minor injuries. A full police investigation, including house-to-house enquiries and CCTV review, found no evidence of any attackers or disturbance. He was arrested in March 2018 after unexplained gaps in his timeline and missing radio audio emerged.

Former Kent Police officer convicted of perverting the course of justice. A misconduct panel dismissed him without notice. Assistant Chief Constable Tim Smith stated the offence wastes police time and damages public trust.

1 Jan 0001

Michael Wheaton

Cocaine supply *

Sentence

11 years imprisonment

Michael Wheaton's involvement in a large-scale cocaine supply network was uncovered after a vehicle driven by an associate was stopped on the M20 in January 2019, revealing nearly 1.5 kilograms of cocaine. Investigations linked Wheaton to a burner phone traced to a petrol station near his London Road home in Ditton. A raid on his property two months later discovered almost £10,000 in cash. Kent Police financial investigators identified sham companies used to launder drug money.

Pleaded not guilty. Convicted following trial. £57,125 in assets seized under Proceeds of Crime Act on 2025-03-20.

1 Jan 0001

Thomas Pearson

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

6.5 years imprisonment

Thomas Pearson, along with Matthew Sales and Jed Coates, attacked the victim with a kitchen knife, a chain and a wooden bat in Cheriton Road, Folkestone, at around 11.50am on 25 August 2020. Pearson approached the victim, punched him repeatedly in the face, and later hit him with a bike chain. The victim was taken to hospital with stab wounds requiring long-term treatment. The attack was witnessed by members of the public, including a young girl. Pearson handed himself in on 1 September 2020.

From Folkestone. Admitted wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon.

1 Jan 0001

Thomas Verdon

Indecent assault *

Sentence

10 years imprisonment

Thomas Verdon, an 84-year-old former armed services member, abused multiple underage girls in the 1970s and 1980s in Hythe, near Folkestone, Kent. Kent Police received a report in 2019 and charged him with seven counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14 and four counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14. At Canterbury Crown Court in January 2023, he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment with an additional three years on extended licence. He died in custody at HMP Norwich in December 2024.

Also given an extended licence of three years following release. Convicted of seven counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14 and four counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14. Some victims were under 10 years old.

1 Jan 0001

Tomas Molnar

Possession of cocaine with intent to supply *

Sentence

2 years and 3 months imprisonment

Officers from Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team patrolled Tram Road, Folkestone, on Friday 14 January 2022 after information about drug dealing. They witnessed suspicious activity in a car park and stopped a Range Rover on The Leas in which Tomas Molnar was travelling. He had around £350-worth of cocaine and was arrested. A search of his home on Broadmead Road uncovered more than £3,000 in cash, around £3,000-worth of cocaine, a knuckle duster, nunchucks and a mobile phone used to advertise drugs and arrange deals.

Admitted possession of cocaine with intent to supply, possession of weapons and possession of criminal property.

1 Jan 0001

Ta-Shan Thompson-Campbell

supplying class A drugs *

Sentence

four and a half years imprisonment

Ta-Shan Thompson-Campbell was identified as the holder of the ‘A1’ County Line operating in Canterbury. On Friday 12 February 2021, officers stopped a car he was a passenger in on the A2050 and recovered the county line mobile phone discarded under the driver’s seat and over £2,000 in cash (£1,400 from Thompson-Campbell and £900 from the car). Phone data confirmed he made 11 trips to Canterbury in a three-month period and sent bulk marketing texts for the drugs line.

Pleaded guilty to being concerned in dealing heroin and cocaine and possession of criminal property.

1 Jan 0001

Taylor Houston

Conspiracy to burgle *

Sentence

four and a half years imprisonment

Taylor Houston was involved in 10 burglaries at properties in Herne Bay, Canterbury, Blean, Whitstable, Wingham and Sandwich between October and November 2022, as part of a conspiracy to burgle. A van linked to the offences was stopped in Sandwich on 21 November 2022. Jewellery stolen during some burglaries was recovered and returned to victims.

Admitted the charge. Aged 28, from Herne Bay. Prior investigative links to the offences.

1 Jan 0001

Terence Kamara

Exposure *

Sentence

2 years and 4 months imprisonment

Terence Kamara, 26, of no fixed address, exposed himself and performed indecent acts in front of three female victims on separate occasions in Canterbury in March 2022: first near public toilets on 22 March 2022 caught on CCTV, then two teenage girls reported similar incidents, and again on 28 March 2022 to a woman in her 20s in the North Holmes Road area.

Pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and three counts of exposure. Issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and required to sign the sex offender register for 10 years.

1 Jan 0001

Terrance Kamara

Exposure *

Sentence

56 weeks’ imprisonment

Terrance Kamara, a prisoner at HMP Elmley in Sheppey, repeatedly exposed himself to a member of prison staff after they responded to him pressing an emergency alarm bell. He would request items such as a pen or paper, and when the victim returned he would be exposed and committing an indecent act. The offences happened during July, August and October 2022 and led to him being charged with three counts of exposure, sexual assault of another victim inside the prison, and assault on an emergency worker.

Pleaded guilty to all charges. Added to the sex offender register for 10 years. Previously jailed in October 2022 for two-and-a-half years for prior sex offences.

1 Jan 0001

Terry Dunne

Grievous bodily harm and drink driving *

Sentence

6 years imprisonment and 65 months driving ban

On 1 April 2018 at 4am, Terry Dunne, 31, deliberately rammed a 48-year-old man with his white Range Rover in Vicarage Lane car park, Ashford, following a row involving a group of people. He then sped off, chased by police for nearly 100 yards, and was stopped in Station Road. Tests revealed he was almost twice the legal drink-drive limit. The victim was taken to a London hospital. Dunne later pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and drink driving.

Pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and drink driving. Used his white Range Rover as a weapon after a street row. Showed no remorse, fled the scene. The victim was taken to hospital but escaped more serious injuries. Detective Constable Kirsty Gee commented: 'Dunne used the force of a car to purposely hit his victim... There is no excuse for premeditated violence.'

1 Jan 0001

Terry Jones

Being concerned in the supply of class A drugs *

Sentence

two and a half years imprisonment

Terry Jones, 29, from Wandsworth, south-west London, was found at a sheltered housing property in the Foord Road area of Folkestone during a Kent Police warrant on 1 April 2021, along with a 15-year-old boy from south London. Searches uncovered around 35 wraps of heroin and analysis of messages on a phone in Jones' possession showed it had been used to arrange drug deals. The property had been 'cuckooed' by drug dealers using the home of a vulnerable person as a base.

Admitted being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.

1 Jan 0001

Scott White

Possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply *

Sentence

2 years imprisonment

Scott White, 28, from Ramsgate, heard officers forcing the door to his home in the early hours of 15 September 2020 and was seen to throw several items out of the window. A search was conducted and officers found crack cocaine and heroin. Weighing scales and two burner phones linked to county lines drug dealing were also seized.

Admitted possession of crack cocaine and heroin with intent to supply.

1 Jan 0001

Simon Elliott

Burglary *

Sentence

2 years and 4 months imprisonment (876 days)

On 16 February 2019, Simon Elliott visited a woman he knew in Cliftonville Avenue, Ramsgate, and shared food and drink with her. He left but returned later that night, calling at the front door before breaking in through a window after moving a pot plant. The victim discovered her front door open and her purse containing cash and bank cards missing. Elliott's fingerprints were found on the pot plant, leading to his arrest. He pleaded guilty to burglary.

Pleaded guilty to burglary. Detective Constable Richard Cordery said his offending was mean-spirited, as he repaid the victim's kindness by stealing her money and bank cards.

1 Jan 0001

Simon Wightman

Robbery *

Sentence

12 years imprisonment

Simon Wightman walked into a chemist in Faversham Road, Seasalter on the morning of 5 December 2022 and held staff at gunpoint, telling them to get on the floor. He stole prescription drugs before leaving the scene in a silver VW Golf. A witness provided a partial registration number of the vehicle. Officers identified a car owned by Wightman as the suspect vehicle and arrested him. Searches of his home in Boughton-under-Blean and business premises in Herne Bay found the stolen medication, clothes matching those worn during the offence, a shortened shotgun, a 9mm pistol, and ammunition for that pistol.

Pleaded guilty to possessing the prohibited weapon and ammunition. Following a trial at Canterbury Crown Court, he was found guilty of robbery, possession of an altered firearm and possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit robbery.

1 Jan 0001

Simonas Moise

Money laundering *

Sentence

three-and-a-half years’ imprisonment

Simonas Moise, 49, of no fixed address, hid around £720,000 of illegally-earned cash in approximately 90 separate bundles within a secret compartment in the side panelling of his van. He was attempting to leave the UK via the Channel Tunnel from the Folkestone terminal on Monday 6 June 2023 when his vehicle caught the attention of security staff. Kent Police officers searched the van and arrested him. He claimed in interview to be transporting the money on behalf of a contact in Romania and denied it was linked to criminal activity.

Found guilty of money laundering following a trial. Cash seized was forfeited under the Proceeds of Crime Act at a previous court hearing in September.

1 Jan 0001

Steven Boorman

Non-contact sexual offences *

Sentence

16 months imprisonment

Steven Boorman, an alcoholic paedophile from the Sittingbourne area in Kent, of no fixed abode, targeted six fake child profiles on Facebook over a series of weeks in autumn 2020. He believed he was grooming underage teenagers, badgering them, sending indecent images of himself, telling one to be a big girl and another that mum does not need to know. Unbeknownst to him, the profiles were operated by paedophile hunters.

Pleaded guilty to nine non-contact sexual offences. Representing himself from HMP Elmley, said in mitigation: 'I've never done this before, the drink overtook me. I would like to get back to normal, I've lost all my family.' Subject to lifetime notification requirements and 10-year sexual harm prevention order.

1 Jan 0001

Steven Luckie

Dangerous driving *

Sentence

20 months in prison, followed by a three-year disqualification from driving

On Friday 5 November 2021, Steven Luckie, a 50-year-old from Cradlebridge Drive, Willesborough, failed to stop for a marked police vehicle on the A259 in New Romney due to his manner of driving. He switched off his headlights, repeatedly reversed into the police vehicle in Sussex Road, and later rammed it again in Ashford Road. Officers ended the pursuit for safety. The car was found abandoned and burnt in Westwell Lane, Ashford. Three days later, Luckie reported the car stolen.

Found guilty by a jury. PC Gary Burgess from Folkestone Community Policing Team commented that Luckie put lives at risk and showed disregard for the law.

1 Jan 0001

Steven Palmer

Sexual touching of a girl *

Sentence

6 years imprisonment with 3 years on licence

On Tuesday 7 December 2022, Steven Palmer followed a schoolgirl walking through Dane Park in Margate during the early evening. He grabbed her from behind, pushed her to the ground, tried to remove her clothing, and sexually assaulted her by touching her inappropriately. The incident was witnessed by another girl who alerted nearby dog walkers. One dog walker shone a torch on the scene, pushed Palmer away from the victim, and the group confronted him. Palmer attempted to assault one of the men but was prevented from leaving until police arrived and arrested him.

Admitted one count of sexual touching of a girl at Canterbury Crown Court. Additional offence of common assault against a witness to lie on file. Subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

1 Jan 0001

Steven Skelton

Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity *

Sentence

10 years imprisonment

Steven Skelton encouraged children to share videos of themselves online in return for digital gifts on a website with a chat room and gifting feature. He possessed more than 230 saved videos of victims as young as seven live streaming between 2019 and 2020, plus over 70 category A images/videos. Interactions included sexual conversations with children, including a 13-year-old from Kent in December 2017. Devices seized from his property in Canterbury Road on 10 August 2020 contained indecent material.

Admitted three charges of taking an indecent image of a child, two counts of possessing indecent images, ten counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one charge of sexual communication with a child. Placed on Sex Offenders Register for life and subject to Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

1 Jan 0001

Stuart Girt

Robbery *

Sentence

5 years imprisonment

Pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of a knife. Aged 42, from Folkestone.

1 Jan 0001

Stuart Goodwin

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

nine years imprisonment and one year on licence

Stuart Goodwin cut a woman with a knife, causing a three-inch cut to her chin, during an incident in the Cheriton Road area of central Folkestone on 25 May 2020. He shut himself in a room with a child and tried to attack attending police officers with the knife, assaulting three PCs and a sergeant during his arrest. He also admitted dangerous driving after driving into a teenage boy on a moped in Radnor Park Avenue, Folkestone, on 25 February 2020, and failing to stop at the scene.

Admitted wounding with intent, child cruelty, four counts of assaulting an emergency worker, and dangerous driving.

1 Jan 0001

Stuart Holland

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft *

Sentence

three years' imprisonment

Stuart Holland, 45, and Jo Bath, 46, both of Union Street, Canterbury, attacked a man in his late fifties in his home in Fleetwood Avenue, Herne Bay, on the evening of Saturday 16 March 2019, where Holland had previously carried out renovation work. They used homophobic language, hit the victim on the legs and head with a fire poker and wooden truncheon, and forced the poker into his mouth before stealing his wallet and fleeing when police were called.

Admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and theft.

1 Jan 0001

Troy Gosden

Wounding with intent *

Sentence

five years and six months’ imprisonment

On 25 January 2023, an 18-year-old man was walking with a friend in Benstead Grove, Faversham, when a vehicle was deliberately driven at them. The victim ran to St Paul’s Avenue seeking help and was pursued by Troy Gosden and Kai Theodule from the car. Gosden assaulted the victim with a machete, puncturing his lung and causing cuts to an arm and hands. The victim underwent surgery. Gosden was arrested on 28 January 2023.

Pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and possessing a machete in a public place.

1 Jan 0001

Vladimir Mrdak

Attempting to import class A drugs *

Sentence

nine years’ imprisonment

Vladimir Mrdak was driving a Slovakian-registered lorry stopped at the Channel Tunnel terminal in Coquelles, France, on 12 July this year. A search by Border Force uncovered 40 kilos of cocaine hidden in plastic wrapped packages placed in boxes on top of legitimate goods of bottle tops and paper rolls. The drugs would have been worth around £3.2 million if sold on the streets of the UK.

Pleaded guilty to attempting to import class A drugs. Told investigators he did not know how the drugs ended up in the trailer.

1 Jan 0001

Tyler Mcdermott

Possession of class A drugs with intent to supply *

Sentence

two-and-a-half years imprisonment

Tyler McDermott, 21, from Ramsgate, was arrested after attending Margate Police Station in relation to an unrelated incident on Thursday 24 October 2019. A search of his vehicle uncovered ketamine, cocaine and MDMA worth more than £500, some of which was hidden in a plastic egg in his van. Analysis of his phone found messages dating back at least three months arranging drug deals with users.

Admitted two counts of possession of class A drugs with intent to supply and one count of possessing class B drugs with intent to supply.

1 Jan 0001

Uttam Gurung

Possession with intent to supply class A drugs *

Sentence

three years in prison

Uttam Gurung, 26, from Willesborough, was detained by police in New Street, Ashford, on Thursday 26 October 2023 and found with 50 wraps of class A drugs including crack cocaine and heroin in his clothing. His car, identified as linked to drug dealing, was searched and found to contain cannabis, a cannabis grinder, a mobile phone and cash. A search of his home address uncovered a larger amount of money and a second mobile phone.

Pleaded guilty to all charges.

1 Jan 0001

Valter Pimentel

Burglary, fraud and theft *

Sentence

15 months imprisonment

Valter Pimentel, 22, from Folkestone, was sentenced following an investigation by Folkestone’s Victim Based Crime Team into numerous offences: fraudulent use of a bank card stolen from a woman in her 70s in Sandgate Road on 28 July 2021; theft of £2,500 worth of jewellery from a shop in Bouverie Place Shopping Centre on 17 October 2021; theft of various items from Tesco in Cheriton High Street on 14 October 2021; theft of clothing from a shop in Bouverie Place Shopping Centre on 23 April 2022; burglary of Asda in Bouverie Place on 24 December 2022.

Some of the offences took place during the term of a suspended sentence previously given for affray.

1 Jan 0001

Vasile Balcovei

Facilitating illegal immigration *

Sentence

32 months imprisonment

Vasile Balcovei, 49, from Tulcea in Romania, a lorry driver who smuggled migrants into the UK for a London-based people smuggling gang, dropped two individuals he had smuggled into the UK at Thurrock Services in Essex in February 2021. The drop-off was witnessed by a member of the public, and the two illegal passengers were picked up by a mini-cab which was being tracked by the NCA. Officers were later able to trace Balcovei’s lorry back to the scene, but by that time he had left the country and returned home. He was eventually arrested in Romania and extradited to the UK to face charges in September.

Pleaded guilty to facilitating illegal immigration.

1 Jan 0001

Victor Walkom

Sexual activity with a child *

Sentence

10 years imprisonment

Victor Walkom carried out sexual offences against two girls aged less than 15 years old. The offences took place in 2016 and 2017. He was charged with five counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act. The victims later reported the offences to Kent Police, prompting an investigation by detectives from the Vulnerability Investigation Team.

Denied the charges but was found guilty of all six counts by a jury. Made the subject of an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

1 Jan 0001

William Pallant

Possession of cocaine, cannabis and LSD with intent to supply *

Sentence

four and a half years imprisonment

William Pallant was stopped and arrested by officers as he ran from his Vauxhall car near Dover on 16 May 2020, after it was linked to drug dealing and fled police, skidding into a field near West Langdon. Police found cocaine, cannabis, two knives, a knuckleduster, drug dealing equipment and bags in the vehicle. While under investigation, on 18 July 2020 he was caught driving a Skoda at 100mph on the M20 near Folkestone, testing positive for cocaine and cannabis; the car contained LSD tablets, cannabis and a lock knife.

Admitted charges of possession of cocaine, cannabis and LSD with intent to supply, and multiple counts of possession of an offensive weapon.

1 Jan 0001

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Canterbury Crown Court, located in Canterbury, Canterbury, is a Crown Court that handles serious criminal cases including murder, rape, robbery, and other indictable offences. With 583 sentencing records in our database, it is one of the Crown Courts serving the Canterbury, Canterbury area. Crown Courts sit with a judge and jury, and have the power to impose the full range of sentences available under UK law.

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Canterbury Crown Court Sentencing Results

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Mark Terry

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Martin Kamesa

Matthew Bevan

Matthew Case

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Miodrag Ivankovic

Miroslav Jano

Moyazzam Hossain

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Michael Rowe

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Taylor Houston

Terence Kamara

Terrance Kamara

Terry Dunne

Terry Jones

Scott White

Simon Elliott

Simon Wightman

Simonas Moise

Steven Boorman

Steven Luckie

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Steven Skelton

Stuart Girt

Stuart Goodwin

Stuart Holland

Troy Gosden

Vladimir Mrdak

Tyler Mcdermott

Uttam Gurung

Valter Pimentel

Vasile Balcovei

Victor Walkom

William Pallant

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